Lalithambika antharjanam autobiography of a fleas
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Antharjanam's Legacy
Lalithambika Antharjanamwas born on March 30, 1909 at Kottavattom near Punalur, Kollam district, in the south Indian state of Kerala, in a conservative household to Kottavattathu Illathu Damodaran Namboothiri and Changarappilli Manaykkal Aryadevi Antharjanam.
She had little formal education, however, her father appointed a private tutor who taught the child, which was unusual at the time.
Although she was part of the most powerful landholding Brahmin caste of Kerala, Lalithambika's life-work was the exposure and destruction of the hypocrisy, violence and injustice with which women were treated in Nambudiri society.
Lalithambika antharjanam autobiography of a fleas
She was not allowed to study in school, and could only glean scraps of information about the outside world through male relatives who were kind enough to tell her about current affairs. She knew a little about the ongoing Indian freedom movement, and longed to take part.
In 1926, she was married in the prescribed way to the farmer Narayana